> By your logic should we allow kids to buy alcohol, cigarettes, and drugs because it inconveniences adults too much?

By your logic, we should allow the government to search our phones, computers, cars, emails, etc before buying alcohol, cigarettes, and drugs because "it might save just one child!".

As someone who grew up in a different part of the world, I had access to alcohol, cigarettes and drugs. There was zero oversight from the state and people were pretty chill about it. My parents gave me the talk about it, let me try it - had my first beer when I was like 11 (imagine the outrage!!!) and nothing happened. I didn't turn into an alcoholic - alcohol does not even appeal to me to this day. Same with cigarettes. I could not afford to buy the drugs. Kids were sharing [low rez] porn on floppy disks in high school. Everyone knew what a dick and a vagina was, took sex ed, there were virtually zero teen pregnancies.

Those aren't remotely the same as what we're talking about. "Think of the children" is a logical fallacy and a tremendously weak argument. Unless you are a fool you know this has nothing to do with children and everything to do with moral policing by a right wing extremist state government.

> moral policing by a right wing extremist

Don't pretend the left wing is any better about this particular issue, though. It's the libertarian checks-and-balances constructs built into our form of our government that's resisted this sort of totalitarianism, not the principles of mercurial politicians.